Posted on 05/21/2019 5:02:30 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(CNN) Bondieuserie. Bewusstseinslage. Ayacahuite.
Most of us wouldn't even know how to pronounce those words, let alone spell them. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a week away and it is sure to be filled with a plethora of problematic words. An international team of linguists from the language-learning app Babbel partnered with Merriam-Webster to analyze a decade's worth of words and find out what knocked out Bee contestants in the final round.
Bondieuserie [bohn-dyooz-ree]: banal and often shoddy religious art (almost all religious art)
Zenaida [zen-eye-da]: any bird of a genus of tropical American pigeons (know of some Mexican women with this name)
Schwärmerei [schvair-muh-RYE]: excessive unbridled enthusiasm or attachment (Hillary or Obama fans)
Ayacahuite (Spanish) [ah-jah-kah-WEE-tay]: a large Mexican pine tree with long needles and extremely large yellowish red cones (nope - it's Indian dialect, probably Aztec)
Minhag (Hebrew) [min-HAHG]: Jewish religious custom (of name calling your wife)
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The older I get the more I struggle with spelling.
I had trouble spelling IBM the other day...
It’s hilarious to watch a parade of home-schooled Indian kids on the stage. Another black eye for expensive, futile public education.
The spelling bee issues a finite list of words so it’s possible to cover all the bases, which these kids do, memory lapses notwithstanding. It’s a bit silly to focus on obscure eyechart type words that are never used in everyday communication.
Not one of the words listed is English.
Schwärmerei [schvair-muh-RYE]: excessive unbridled enthusiasm or attachment (Hillary or Obama fans)hmmm?
They forgot Tchoutacabouffa River. River is not that hard but the other part is.
It usually doesn't, please coöperate when it does.
BOOM, touché!
The older I get the more I struggle with spelling.
Yes, I have difficulty spelling my name on the bottom of numerous tax forms each year.
Very hard for me.
I’ve been thinking of asking the accountant to do it, so I do not have to look at the forms.
Did you not notice the, "CNN" origin? It's like the, "trans" prefix; one should assume the opposite of anything that follows.
-—The older I get the more I struggle with spelling.——
Remember, the rule of 65
After reaching 65 years of age, minor spelling and grammatical errors can be ignored
For MSM this would be honesty, integrity, and moralistic
bookmark
Well, that's a little harsh. Didn't you see ...?
A few common spelling errors and wrong words in phrases.
Take it for granite. Should be ‘granted’.
Superseed - should be supersede.
Heart wrenching - should be ‘rending’ meaning tearing.
Tow the line - should be ‘toe’ - put your toe on the line.
Lightening - should be lightning - electricity in the sky.
Pour over - should be ‘pore’ as when you are studying a document.
Step on the breaks - should be ‘brakes’ - the things that make the car stop.
Peak my interest - should be pique.
covfefe!
Could we just agree on how to spell “cancel”?
Just getting the Freeper who puts “braking” in the key words of breaking news articles to use the correct word would be a start.
Truth is not part of their vocabulary.
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